Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1887-12-16
Eslsrf Rsaning.
THE CABIN BOY.


nv sitting-room the room that over
looks the Channel. From its Windows
when the atmosphere is favorable, |
lean se the French coast line; and
when there is gale, and steamers are
plowing heavily In the waves, and the
sail-vessel. arc scudding under bare
poles. love 10 take my sewing or my
book into one of the great bow-wln-
doxs, aud enjoy tive grand view.
Nv father buiIt the house so near
the sea, because he hal been sailor
al his life, and could not live far away
from salt water. When he died, the
place came TO me. and the man | mar
ried happened to hold an important
/ position in the revenue service, and
| it was precisely the thing that ~e
should live IN this dear old home. 81
my children were born here, grew up
here, and two are buried IN the Clitl
Cemetery. Over yonder. They, the
/ living. are all married now. ard living
i'm houses of thrir own, from L'od :
End 10 John O'Grsat's; bat each
summer the old home /, full Of them
s-d their families. and ms dear grand
/ children, sometimes dnZ-n OF them
together. make the place roun. asa'r
With their mlrth aud laughter and
charming child ~ay..
/ And the picture
1t hung there in my own childhood
7 it has hung there ever slnc- tho1sht
lii the brayest, haudsomr.t picture
that conld be; and not child nor d
lgrsndchild OF mine hut has been at
tracted 10 IT from the time that any
thing was noticed.
No ordinary picture is it. YOU MAJ
be sure. If it had been made IN these
cheap days OF big imperial photographs
md colored autographs. aud g'ud'
ichromos, there would D. nothing abou'
lit worth five minutes notice. But /
YOU look in the lower lett hand corner
YOU will find the mark. -. Il. pink.
ll7s5," aud that. | may tell ycu, VA
the mark OF Sir Joshua Reynolds, th'
most famous palrtrr oi the rrlgns .
the Four Georges.
So it is . painting, and no common
lone either. Those colors were LAID OF
by a master hand. 1t is grand size
six feet by four and half | coulo
turn nv ewes from il and describe ever,
Idsfail of it. 4 saiIorboy of twelve
Ihatless, and fair Of face As the picture
of the youthful Byron, sits up on IN
high main cross trees of the ship, IN
back TO the mast, his left hand grasp
ling one Of the ropes by which he ha
sscended to this dizzy height. his lef
foot brsced against cross. s.ropes, hi
! right foo, swinging, his right han'
j rssting on the timber of the cross tree
IHis flaxen hair and the loose ends o
! his aeckerchief are blowing out We
, there is not wind enough below TO rut
fe the ocean. for, far down and IA
away to the horizon. You see 1t stretch
ing as placid AS pond. An alba
tross is flying about the ship-the on
: " other living creature in sight. Ther
he sits, clinging to the ropes, his blu
ewes gazing off over the wide ocean
- q, Sc eagerly.
For years past they have come t
me, my children and grandchildren
and begged me to tell them about thl
handsome little sailor.
There must be some story about him,
as oeen the common remark.
wndeed there is, my dear. and
J. GOOD one. You shall hear it.
The time has come when 1t has bee
r, told to all of them; even 10 llttl
e. Minnie, who has not yet given up he
I'd dolls. SO now the great, kind put
e' lie shall be my children, and for th
ID last time will relate the Sto~y Of tn
d. brave sailor boy
: When Captain Jacob Converse WI
% about to leave London with the shl
il CYNTHIA, laden with great variety (
s si fancy articles for traffic with the nj
OF tives of the far-of islands of the Sout
= Pacific, he bethought him that he'hs
not secured him cabin-h boy
.And-xhstd' We want of u cain, bt
asked his grutf mate, Mr.. Kinds. :
csbin- boy is mostly a little way gabor
= who learns nothing about ship but
be lazy, to steal the goodies out
your locker, and to tell tales of you
the fo'catle. | wouldn't have such
fellow about
Bat the Captain and Mr. UinIs d
cred on this subject. as they did